Srinath Vasireddy

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overcoming api designer's block

How do I go about designing API for my Library? Gosh where do I start? If you are asking these questions, then start with Krzysztof's Framework Design Guidelines Digest . Here is a high level overview of the process: 1) Ok, first list Read More...

Posted Saturday, May 10, 2008 5:07 AM by srinathv | 0 Comments

Filed under: Design

Dr. Stephen Covey's thought-provoking speech at Microsoft

Front Row Access is a Microsoft internal SMSG (Sales, Marketing & Services Group) event organized to bring industry recognized leaders to provide an opportunity for employees to learn & build critical skills. Yesterday's speaker was Dr. Stephen Read More...

Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 2:43 PM by srinathv | 1 Comments

Trivia: Why Bill named it Microsoft?

I have always wondered why Bill named this company " Microsoft ". Today at TechReady6 Ballmer mentioned that it stands for " SOFTware for MICROprocessor ." Read More...

Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 11:48 PM by srinathv | 1 Comments

Filed under: Misc

Deepfish Tech Preview

I am currently blogging from ETECH ... we announced DEEPFISH (mobile web viewer) and is available for a limited set of users. Check it out - http://labs.live.com/deepfish Srinath Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:08 PM by srinathv | 0 Comments

Check out Labs.Live.Com & Photosynth

After my 4+ year at p atterns & practices shipping five guides ( Building Secure ASP.NET Apps ; threats & countermeasures ; perf & scale ; SmartClient Arch & Design ; BI Arch & Design ) and 2 projects ( UAB , VSTO 2005 Outlook Managed Read More...

Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 1:21 PM by srinathv | 0 Comments

Just Released: Architecture and Design Guidelines for BI Apps

About the Deliverable The Architecture and Design Guidelines for BI Applications provides prescriptive guidance on how to overcome architectural challenges and design issues when building Business Intelligence solutions using Microsoft platform. This Read More...

Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 8:23 PM by srinathv | 3 Comments

Statistically Valid, Nonsensical Correlation!

Interesting read: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=368317 talks about 5 scenarios Shaving habits linked to stroke risk Nightshift link to breast cancer Study finds prayer 'double chance of IVF success' Breast implant suicide link Tooth Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 6:01 PM by srinathv | 2 Comments

Filed under: BI

Seattle Code Camp

Today at Seattle Code Camp day 2 -- Peter & Brad gave the attendees a taste of Dependency Injection via ObjectBuilder (which is part our CAB deliverable), TDD & Pair Programming, Model-View-Presenter, Monad and CAB. The slides for the presentation Read More...

Posted Monday, October 24, 2005 12:36 AM by srinathv | 2 Comments

Filed under: Smart Client

Patterns & Practices: CAB CTP2 available now...

We (patterns & practices -- Smart Client team) just released CAB (Composite UI Application Block) - Oct 2005 CTP2 - grab it from our GotDotNet space http://practices.gotdotnet.com/projects/cab Thx - Srinath Read More...

Posted Friday, October 07, 2005 9:16 PM by srinathv | 0 Comments

Guidance on migrating VB6 apps to VB.NET

My group ( patterns & practices ) has published a draft of VB6 upgrade guidance to GDN community space. The Guide covers many technical challenges (like COM+, unsupported featues, API call, etc.) but also addresses the process of migration: asessment, Read More...

Posted Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:16 AM by srinathv | 0 Comments

Develop Managed Outlook Add-ins with VSTO 2005

After several weeks of hard work, at TechEd we announced our latest work – Yes, you can now easily develop managed outlook add-ins with VSTO 2005. Read the following articles to get an overview Introduction In depth architecture article End-to-End Task Read More...

Posted Monday, June 06, 2005 12:50 PM by srinathv | 4 Comments

UAB v2.0 shipped

I have been extremely busy for last couple of months managing multiple projects in our p&p smart client program and for personal reasons . One project that we just shipped - Updater Application Block version 2.0 . Based on extensive feedback we received Read More...

Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 9:56 AM by srinathv | 0 Comments

UAB: Programatically determining BITS version

Code snippet on How to determine the installed version of BITS - if you need to from your Update App Block (UAB) http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/messageboard/thread.aspx?id=83c68646-befb-4586-ba9f-fdf1301902f5&threadid=950bf661-b866-4d24-9a1c-67a897fec880 Read More...

Posted Monday, August 30, 2004 7:20 PM by srinathv | 1 Comments

NEED FEEDBACK: Offline Application Block...

We (patterns& practices group @ MS) are currently working on the planning process for Offline Application Block version 2. If you have played with this block... - Please give us details on what was easy and What specific challenges did you face when Read More...

Posted Friday, August 27, 2004 7:03 PM by srinathv | 6 Comments

POSTED: Updater Application Block + BITS2.0 Fix

Community code fix for "Updater Application Block" for BITS 2.0 breaking changes is posted at http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/viewuploads.aspx?id=83c68646-befb-4586-ba9f-fdf1301902f5 Read More...

Posted Sunday, August 15, 2004 11:40 PM by srinathv | 0 Comments